Sentences with phrase «trials research participants»

Development and initial validation of the Therapeutic Misunderstanding Scale for use with clinical trials research participants.

Not exact matches

The research team conducted a randomized blinded trial of intercessory prayer added to normal cancer treatment with participants agreeing to complete quality of life (QOL) and spiritual well - being scales at baseline and 6 months later.

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

All study participants gave written informed consent and the study was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number CF12 / 0348 -2012000146), and the trial registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468trial registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468921).

The participants in the Starbrite trial bring considerable clinical and research experience.

For instance, clinical trial participants can avoid the inconvenience of visiting research facilities, writing down their daily activities or wearing clunky monitors.

In that older approach, trial participants worked iteratively and explicitly through target acquisition attempts while a trained clinical research technician monitored and updated the software.

How do we protect trial participants and ordinary consumers without adversely affecting research and quality of care?

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Finally, the research team tested a drug already in clinical trials (IGF - 1) on a cohort of study participants, finding that it provoked a reversal of neural alterations, though the degree of response varied by ASD individual.

The episode highlights a tricky dilemma for companies and research teams involved in deep brain stimulation (DBS) research: If trial participants want to keep their implants, who will take responsibility — and pay — for their ongoing care?

The new study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, collated and analysed the individual data from 955 participants in seven randomised controlled trials, which tested the use of vitamin D supplements.

The authors also caution that the follow - up period for participants in this trial was only six months per patient, so further research will be needed to see if there is a long term effect and whether maintaining the training period could help to extend the benefits of training.

«Informed activists have become full participants in deciding the design and the kinds of trial that should be done,» says Anthony Fauci, head of the US government's AIDS research effort at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Maryland.

In addition to consenting to an IRB - approved trial in the first place, participants must also give consent for 23andMe to share their personal data with the research study, and may also consent to contributing anonymized data to 23andMe's proprietary database.

The Registry has helped recruit participants and provide data for clinical trials and other important SMA research studies.

Previous research (the Gynecologic Oncology Group's GOG181B trial) has suggested that trastuzumab is inactive in HER2 / neu - expressing endometrial carcinomas, and in the current study, nearly half of the participants «ultimately did not have tumoral HER2 / neu gene amplification,» Dr. Santin said.

On average (top), a research participant might seem to produce a sustained, elevated rhythm of beta, but a look trial by trial (lower rows) shows that beta emerges in discrete bursts.

In this role, Ms. Roxland re-launched and chaired J&J's Ethics Committee, created an enterprise - wide consultation service for teams and individuals confronting complex research ethics issues, and provided guidance on issues such as post-trial access for former research participants, conducting clinical trials in war - torn regions, testing of a potential Ebola vaccine during a public health crisis, commercialization of stem cell therapies, subject recruitment and withdrawal, and expanded access / compassionate use.

This paper describes results from a clinical trial that demonstrates that a single dose of a broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 monoclonal antibody is well tolerated and reduces viral load in a cohort of 33 research participants.

The Registry has helped recruit participants for clinical trials and has provided data for important SMA research studies.

A trial participant has the chance to receive a potentially promising treatment that is not available to the general public and to receive care at the nation's top academic medical centers and research institutes.

phenomenon whereby a research participant conflates the goals of research with those of clinical treatment) and ensure that all prospective trial participants have adequate post-trial access to treatment and DBS device maintenance.

Immune responses of patients could point way forward for future vaccines.In the latest study, researchers involved with the trial at Mahidol University in Bangkok and the U.S. Military HIV Research Program in Washington DC assembled a team to scour the blood of trial participants for immune indicators that differed between 41 people who received the vaccine and contracted HIV and 205 participants who did not become infected.

The article by Mansukhani et al1 in this issue of JAMA Surgery reveals that, despite the introduction of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 to ensure that female participants were included in clinical trials, males and females currently are not included in surgical clinical research in equal numbers.

Most randomized field trials involve measuring the effects of an intervention on individual research participants.

To achieve that goal, members of the firm are active participants in defense litigation organizations, including the Federation of Insurance and Corporation Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC).

Clinical Coordinators are involved with clinical trials and research projects and are responsible for managing programs, assigning tasks, recruiting and training participants, and networking with clients.

Nurse Researcher Penn Medicine, Hampton, GA 10/2012 — Present • Provide and coordinate clinical care for patients involved in clinical research studies • Ascertain accuracy of data collection and data recording, and handle correlating follow - up • Schedule evaluation screenings and ensure that all participant are made physically and mentally ready for them • Provide patient participants with information on what to expect during clinical trials • Handle administration of investigational drugs, and handle detailed clinical assessments • Study chronic and acute diseases and disorders, and assist in developing new treatment plans • Assist in testing new treatments and medications that may change the way diseases and disorders are perceived • Compile clinical data and review and assess it for reporting purposes

I have experience in research and have been a participant in published clinical trials.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS * Over 4 + years of progressive work experience in clinical and academic research hospital settings, collaborating with investigators and a multidisciplinary health care team in the recruitment of study participants for various investigator - initiated and industry sponsored clinical trial studies.

Participants who choose to stop participating in the nurse service will continue to be followed with the research assessments, unless they request to withdraw from the trial, in which case all research assessments will cease.

Data sharing statement Individual participant data collected during the trial (after deidentification) that underlie the publications from MySweetHeart research group will be available on reasonable request.

Design, Setting, and Participants Randomized controlled trial of heterosexual and same - sex couples (n = 40 couples; n = 80 individuals) in which one partner met criteria for PTSD according to the Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale, conducted from 2008 to 2012 in a Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient hospital setting in Boston, Massachusetts, and a university - based research center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We addressed some of the prior criticisms of EBT research by ensuring that (1) participants and study context were clinically representative, (2) there were no systematic differences in clinician competence across conditions (ie, all clinicians were randomly assigned), and (3) the sample would include the ethnic diversity that critics have found insufficient in the randomized controlled trial literature.17 - 20 Accordingly, we obtained samples from outpatient treatment programs that served the general public across a broad demographic and income range, we included only youths whose families sought treatment (ie, no recruiting or advertising), all treatment was provided by professional clinicians employed in the participating programs, and all treatment was provided in those programs (ie, not in university laboratory clinics).